Earl Glynn on August 27th, 2010

On Thursday four Kansans filed suit in federal court in Wichita to block the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission from selecting the next member of the court.
The lawsuit claims the process in Kansas to select a new member for the state’s high court violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause.  The lawsuit asks all [...]

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For more than a year Mr. Benjamin Hodge has pushed, and pushed, and pushed, and pushed, and pushed, and pushed me to write an article about the Kansas Open Meeting Act (KOMA) matter he was involved in at Johnson County Community College last year.
We have talked about this KOMA matter in person.  We have talked [...]

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Special Contributor on June 6th, 2010

Think and Ink: Uncle Sam’s Money Giveaway
“Hey! That’s My Hard-Earned Money!”
“Ah, the cost of free money…”
Copyright 2010, Think and Ink, O’Hara and Hoit. Contact: Charlotte O’Hara.

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Do you want to become a more effective citizen journalist to keep your local government more accountable?
If you do, I will be hosting  investigative journalism workshops as part of  the Kansas City Post-Party Summit to be held this Friday and Saturday May 7-8  in Kansas City.
If you are not interested in citizen journalism, but want [...]

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Think and Ink:  President Obama:  “Don’t worry – more help is on the way”.
Copyright 2010, Think and Ink, O’Hara and Hoit. Contact:  Charlotte O’Hara.

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Special Contributor on March 30th, 2010

Think and Ink:  “I can keep you safe from all the monsters … except that one.  Vratil’s Sugar Tax.
Copyright 2010, Think and Ink, O’Hara and Hoit.  Contact:  Charlotte O’Hara.
Related:

The taxman cometh… for your soda, KC Star Prime Buzz, March 9, 2010.
Kansas soda drinkers to be treated like smokers, The Pitch Blog, March [...]

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Earl Glynn on February 11th, 2010

Are Kansas Courts overstepping their bounds in a freedom of the press case?
Claire O’Brien, a Dodge City Globe reporter, learned details from an interview with a murder suspect.  Ford County attorney Terry Malone wants to force her to reveal her sources:
From today’s Hutchinson News:   Dodge City reporter is fined for court no-show
From today’s Pittsburg Morning [...]

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Earl Glynn on December 16th, 2009

On Monday I published a watchdog.org article about my study of nearly 100,000 records from the Statement of Disbursements about all members of the U.S. House:
Top Food & Other Expenditures by Members of U.S. House in 2009 Q3
Since then several members of the national press have reported on this story or the numbers:

House members eat [...]

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Earl Glynn on September 8th, 2009

[Updated Sept 13] According to a Show-Me Institute Policy Pulse blog post about 2500 attended the United We Stand — Freedom Fest at Theis Park in Kansas City on Saturday.  Participants were from both Missouri and Kansas.  See videos of the event below.

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Don Jordan, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, sent a letter to an unknown list of Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) providers recently asking for information on behalf of the Service Employees International Union/SEIU including:

attendants’ names,
addresses,
telephone numbers.

Read the text of the letter below (or click on the [...]

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